Pantheon China Acquisition Corp (cont'd)
Directors and Executive Officers
Our current directors and executive officers are as follows:
Mark D. Chen has been our chairman of the board, chief executive officer and president since our inception. Since November 2005, Mr. Chen has been a private investor and has been affiliated with Easton Capital Investment Group, which manages a number of private equity limited partnerships, including Easton Hunt Capital Partners, L.P., as a venture partner. He has also been founder and general partner of Easton Hunt Capital Partners, L.P. since its formation in 1999. From February 1998 to November 2005, Mr. Chen served in various positions with Easton Capital Investment Group and its various affiliated funds, including most recently as managing director. From January 1997 to December 1997, Mr. Chen served as chief operating officer and was a co-founder of SureData Inc., a computer component and system marketing and distribution company in China. From October 1994 to January 1997, Mr. Chen served as a manager of research and development for Cincinnati Milacron Company, a supplier of industrial consumables, machinery and other products to industrial product manufacturers. Mr. Chen was a Business Analyst from 1989 to 1990 of Nin De Material Corp., a trading and logistics company in China. Mr. Mr. Chen received a B.S. from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China, a M.S. from Pennsylvania State University and a M.B.A. from the Columbia Business School at Columbia University. Mr. Chen is the spouse of Jennifer J. Weng.
Jennifer J. Weng has been our chief financial officer and secretary since our inception. Since April 2005, she has been an executive director of Greater Pacific Inc., a financial advisory company through which she has been active in its private investment activities, as well as providing strategic and financial advisory services to private companies in China. From January 2001 to March 2005, she was a senior research analyst with Industrial Bank of Japan, Ltd. and its successor Mizuho Corporate Bank in New York, one of the world’s largest commercial banks, providing research, due diligence, and credit analysis for public debt offering, corporate lending and leveraged buyout transactions in a wide range of industries in the United States. From May 2000 to January 2001, she was vice president of finance for a-Media Inc., a publishing and media company based in New York. From February 1998 to May 2000, she was an associate of the fixed income division with Morgan Stanley. From 1995 to 1998, she was with KPMG Peat Marwick performing auditing on numerous private and public companies in United States. Ms. Weng received a B.A. from Tongji University, China and an M.B.A. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Weng is the spouse of Mark D. Chen.
Christina Jun Mu has been a executive vice president and a member of our board of directors since our inception. Ms. Mu has served as Managing Director of Ortus Capital Management Limited, an investment management fund, since September 2004. From February 2003 to May 2004, Ms. Mu served as vice president of the Royal Bank of Scotland. From April 2000 to February 2004, Ms. Mu was with Goldman Sachs’ foreign exchange sales group in New York where her last position was of vice president. From August 1998 to March 2000, Ms. Mu served as a risk management advisor for UBS Warburg. Prior to that, Ms. Mu served as an engineer for the Westinghouse Nuclear Power Plant Control Division. Ms. Mu received a B.S. from Northeast University, a M.S. from the University of Pittsburgh and a M.S./M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.
Kevin Kezhong Wu has been a executive vice president and a member of our board of directors since our inception. Since October 2004, Mr. Zhong has served as an executive partner of PreIPO Capital Partners Limited, a private equity investment company in China. From November 2003 to October 2004, Mr. Zhong served as president of China Special Fibre Holdings Limited, a fiber manufacturing company in China. From May 2000 to October 2004, Mr. Zhong also served as the general manager of Shanghai Keweisi Investment Co., Ltd., a private equity and investment company in China. From October 1998 to May 2000, Mr. Zhong served as a partner and was the founder of DynaXchange.com Inc., an internet company providing financial and information services. From January 1996 to October 1998, Mr. Zhong served as a financial analyst at UTD Capital Group Limited, a private financial services
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and investment company. Mr. Zhong received a B.S. and a B.A. from Shanghai JiaoTong University and a M.S. from the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
Our board of directors is divided into three classes with only one class of directors being elected in each year and each class serving a three-year term. The term of office of the first class of directors, consisting of Kevin Kezhong Wu, will expire at our first annual meeting of stockholders. The term of office of the second class of directors, consisting of Christina Jun Mu, will expire at the second annual meeting. The term of the third class of directors, consisting of Mark D. Chen, will expire at the third annual meeting.
Special Advisors
John H. Friedman is currently the managing partner of Easton Capital Investment Group. Since 1991, Mr. Friedman has also been the president of Easton Capital Corp., a private investment firm. From 1989 to 1991, Mr. Friedman was a managing director of Security Pacific Capital Investors. Prior to joining that firm, he was a Managing Director of E. M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., Inc., where he was employed from 1981 to 1989. From 1978 to 1980, Mr. Friedman practiced law with the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City. Mr. Friedman received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Mr. Friedman also is a director of Comverse Technology, Inc., Acorda Therapeutics Inc., Renovis Inc., Conor Medsystems, Inc. and YM BioSciences Inc.
Francisco A. Garcia has been the managing director of Easton Hunt Capital Partners since 2000. From 1999 to 2000, he was the head of corporate finance at Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn, LLC, a large funds management and private equity firm. From 1987 to 1998, he was the founder, chairman of the board and chief investment officer of Neptune Management Company, an investment firm which invested in special situations and distressed securities. Prior to founding Neptune, Mr. Garcia was an executive vice president of Smith-Vasiliou, an investment fund; a vice president in the corporate finance department at Kidder, Peabody & Co.; and an attorney with Sullivan & Cromwell. He received an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He serves on the board of directors of Archibald Bros. International.
Hunter S. Reisner has been a managing director of ACI Capital, a middle market private equity investment firm, since 2005. From 1997 to 2004, Mr. Reisner was the founder and managing partner of Citigroup Investments Private Equity Group (formerly Travelers Investment Group) and became senior partner of its successor, Citigroup Private Equity, in 2002. In these capacities, Mr. Reisner was responsible for investing over $3 billion and managing over $6 billion of proprietary and client capital in over 30 private equity direct investments and over 125 private equity partnerships. From 1994 to 1997, he served as a senior equity capital markets professional at Smith Barney and from 1991 to 1993, served in the same capacity with Salomon Brothers. Mr. Reisner received a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Yale University, graduating summa cum laude, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Qiang Sean Wang is the chairman and chief executive officer of Maxit Technology, Inc., a communication equipment vendor he co-founded in 2004. He has also been the chairman of DCwireless Technology Limited since 2004. He is also an advisor to DragonTech Ventures Management Limited, a venture capital management firm he co-founded and served as a managing director from 2000 to 2004. From 1998 to 1999, Dr. Wang was a deputy general manager of China International Capital Corp. (CICC) and from 1997 to 1998, he was a senior regional analyst covering telecom and technology at Nikko Research Centre, Hong Kong. From 1990 to 1997, Dr. Wang was on the faculty of the University of Victoria, Canada. From 1987 to 1990, he was a member of technical staff at MPR Teltech, a telecommunication system developer, in Vancouver, Canada. He was ranked a Top-10 Venture Capitalist in China in 2001 and 2002 by Zero2IPO. Dr. Wang received a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering in 1988 from University of Victoria. He is also a charter holder of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) registered in British Columbia, Canada.
Our board of directors and special advisors will play a key role in identifying and evaluating prospective business combination candidates, selecting the target business, and structuring, negotiating and consummating its business combination. None of these individuals has been a principal of a public company or blank check company that executed a business plan similar to our business plan. However, the skills and expertise of these individuals, their collective access to business combination opportunities and ideas, their contacts, and their transactional expertise should enable them to successfully identify and effect a business combination. |
